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A long and terrible shadow : white values, native rights in the Americas, 1492-1992  Cover Image Book Book

A long and terrible shadow : white values, native rights in the Americas, 1492-1992

Berger, Thomas R. (Author).

Summary: This history of the native peoples of North and South America since first contact with Europeans explores the effects of native cultures, health, economies and land rights as well as law and tradition, of settlement and colonization.

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  • ISBN: 1550547089
  • ISBN: 029597222X (paper)
  • ISBN: 9780295972220 (paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    xiv, 183 pages ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: 1st paperback ed.
  • Publisher: Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1992.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-174) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Las Casas and the rights of the indians -- The debate at Valladolid -- Disease and death -- Indian slavery: Brazil and the Carolinas -- Indians as allies: the Iroquois -- John Marshall and the indians -- Wars against the Indians: the United States and Argentina -- Reserves, reservations and reducciones -- Guatemala: rebirth of the black legend -- The last redoubt: the survival of subsistence -- Native claims and the rule of law.
Subject: Indians, Treatment of
Indians Land tenure
Indians Politics and government
Indians Government relations
Indiands Civil rights
Self-determination, National

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library E 91 .B44 1991 258013 Stacks Available -
Lummi Library Indian # 32 275110 Deloria Collection Available -

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